I use a few social media platforms at the same time. I’m used to seeing the same things on each platform. That’s how the internet has been for years - you read the same things on the same five sites.
To be fully transparent, Lemmy isn’t at the top. I don’t post much and I lurk. Sometimes I post a comment here and there.
But this past week, I’m seeing more and more interesting content in the “Everything” section of Lemmy that I didn’t see in my other social media feeds. New communities and more interesting convos.
Uncertain if the fediverse has gotten a wave of new posters, some algorithm has changed, or every other social media company is sucking more and more thanks to America Team Police…
Just wanted to share my extremely limited anecdotal non-fact checked viewpoint.
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It’s always amusing browsing all with ‘new comments’
How so? I check that one occassionally, am fairly new to lemmy, I didn’t notice all that much different about that one but idk.
Oh it’s like old forum mode, where comment in an old thread bumps it to the top. It lets you see if people are still replying in a week old thread
As more of the world is moving into the #boycottUS movement more people are moving to open source alternatives. I personally wish more people would move to more open source things rather than alternative closed source things that could be sold to a US company.
Exactly. It’s like people that move to Bluesky, which is under private control, and then are shocked when abuses start there.
The problem is exactly that social spaces shouldn’t be privately owned and a source of profit. Until you address that, the slop hellsites will always wind up that way.
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I’m using Sync (I’m lazy with getting new apps and it hasn’t pissed me off yet) and the button is called “Everything”. So I guess it’s the All section!
I love Sync but be aware that it is no longer being actively developed. It has some bugs that will never be fixed, and might break entirely in the future.
Has the developer confirmed he’s dropped the project for good, or is he still just MIA? I know he’s gone over a year between updates before, so unless he’s announced that he’s done, there’s still a small possibility of an update in the future.
This is longer than he’s ever been MIA for before, this time I think it’s about 2 years since the last update, and there are several literally critical bugs. But this is the downside with absentee developers like that, you never know for sure whether it’s abandonware or not. But he seems to be actively working on other stuff still so I just don’t think Lemmy took off enough in popularity for him to feel like it’s worth his time monetarily. Makes sense if this was always more of a business than a passion project, which is the way it appears to be to me.
The least he could do would be to just say that he is done developing the Lemmy app. Just vanishing is a dick move.
Especially when one of the apps payment models is a monthly subscription. I hope most people have cancelled by now, but subscriptions tend to be sticky, which is partly why buisnesses like them so much.
I’ve been using “Thunder” and so far it’s done a pretty wonderful job of things. Very easy to view and scroll on a phone. A lot of options you can set and customize.
Thunder was still not quite what I was looking for last time I tried it. I am very happy with Summit now, personally.
Haven’t tried summit. Thunder is pretty close to a clone of what I was using on reddit before the api fiasco they had and I bailed. Relay for reddit.
Swapped to voyager as my main, thunder doesn’t let you reply to dms which is annoying every once in a while.
Does it not? I never get dm’d. Lol
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I’m sure that’s what they mean. I scroll with “New/All” and this is a fantastic way to read new stuff you have never heard about BUT the caveat is: this is an enjoyable scroll ONLY after you’ve developed a good block list of users, instances and communities. Otherwise, you’ll get inundated with the few but very vocal and toxic communities that make Lemmy feel like a clone of Reddit/Twitter/etc.
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Very cool feedback, i hope newcomers enjoy their stay too. It’s not perfect but i do hope the fediverse is a fun place whatever fedisoftware you are on. 8)
fedisoftware
“Fediware” ;-)
Fediware, is it widely used ? Cool name :)
Yes widely by all my alts!
Amazing ! Let’s spread it even more ! :3
I think a lot of it is unfortunately tied to how quiet US politics is, when more outrageous things happen, the worse the lemmy experience becomes.
We are just not the type to put our heads in the sand.
This is why I I try to limit the political stuff to the extent that I feel energised for action.
Had some gems recently indeed
I just subscribed to new communities and i’ve gotten more involved in Lemmy again. New content yey!
Bots vs people
You could be right: The bots have been very bad but I agree that I’m seeing them get shutdown faster lately.
Yeah I think So, bots.
You think there are a lot of bots on here? I noticed a few influence agents pushing israeli bullshit, forget the instances. They had a suspiciously large number of votes for them. Others are grinding axes, hard to say which might be influence agents necessarily, but plenty that could be, pushing wrongheaded opinions that when challenged with reasoned arguments reply with personal attacks and obscure the issue with slander. But that is learned behavior from the top down so it could be they just emulate rotten people.
I come for conversation. Granted its just snippets here and there but im not here to got links or media dropped on me without context.
It feels a lot more organic. Once in a while, I get into a heated argument where we go back and forth.
But it doesn’t feel like I’m arguing with an obvious troll. Just two people with disagreements.
On Reddit, argue with someone and they go, “Yeah will you’re a cuck and you post on lolcats” and then you find out theyre a Indian teen or a bot.
I’m someone who just re-joined after trying out lemmy & kbin a couple years ago then dropping off after a few months. I can say the experience now is a lot better. There’s so much more content and activity.
I still use Reddit for more niche topics but I don’t miss it nearly as much as expected to.
NGL, I got permabaned there in October… just 2 weeks shy of 15 years… Found old.lemmy.zip, fell in and fell in love.
Haven’t missed Reddit at all.
I keep catching reddit bans for calling Trump a pedophile lol. Really tells you where their moderation is at these days.
I think it’s partly because reddit has become an overflowing bucket of shit where bots accuse bots of being bots and real humans get permabanned for breaking bs rules or saying no-no words.
honestly it’s really not
Like “Linux” in linuxsucks101…
I jump between social networks every few years. My social network path has gone from AOL chat groups, to Yahoo News groups, to Facebook for a few years, to Twitter, to Mastodon, to Reddit.
Last week I decided to test Lemmy out. Best thing I can say about it is that it’s not any worse than all the others. Which is a pretty good compliment really, considering the resources and network advantages that all the others have.
Absolutely. It’s a testament to what people that care can do.
I love it here.
I decided to look into Lemmy in the last week. You’re welcome!
America Team
Isn’t it “Team America”?
Fuck yeah!
They may not have seen that movie but its incredibly correct. :)
Not sure about divergence, but there are definitely a lot more interesting posts now. I’ve tried fediverse (kbin) when the reddit API shit happened. I’m a gamer and there weren’t many interesting gaming posts at the time so I returned back to Reddit like a week later. This time with the Discord bullshit I gave fediverse another try and it’s so much better now. It’s still not as many compared to Reddit but at least there are actual content I enjoy scrolling.
